Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sticky, bluish-gray subsurface layer of clay found in some waterlogged soils.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To shine; glance.
  • To look obliquely or askance; squint.
  • noun A squint or sidelong glance.
  • Awry; asquint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Scot. To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
  • adverb Asquint; askance; obliquely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun soil science A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Russian dialectal gleĭ, clay.]

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1920s, from Ukrainian глей (hlej, "clayey soil"), from Proto-Slavic *glĭjĭ, from *gli-jo-. Cognate of clay.

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